The feeling on Merseyside, which is
becoming increasingly apparent further afield, is that Moyes has
assembled the best squad of his 10-year tenure.

Their statistics this season seem to
give some credence to that suggestion as Everton, the perennial slow
starters, managed just two wins from their first seven league matches
last year and did not win a league match until October the campaign
before that.

After such an impressive start the
players were having to deal with the prospect of handling rising
expectations but they were not so adept at dealing with Southampton's
set-pieces.

From Adam Lallana's corner Ramirez was given the freedom of the penalty area to nod in the simplest of headers.

It was the Uruguay international's
first goal in English football following his club-record 12million
summer transfer from Bologna and the first time Everton have conceded in
the opening 45 minutes of a Premier League game this season.

Everton turned the game on its head in a 14-minute period which exposed all the flaws characteristic of a newly-promoted team.

Kevin Mirallas swung over a
right-wing cross and although Jelavic threw himself at it he succeeded
only in diverting it back to Osman who smashed the loose ball into the
roof of the net from close range.

The goalscorer returned the favour
when his through-ball sent Jelavic running through the inside-left
channel but Paulo Gazzaniga's woeful positioning made it all-too-easy
for the Croatia international to fire a shot across him.

Southampton's goalkeeper redeemed
himself slightly by brilliantly clawing out the striker's header
destined for the top corner but was powerless to prevent him nodding in
Seamus Coleman's cross to the far post.

We're flying: Leon Osman notched Everton's third goal which effectively ended the game before the break

The visitors have the leakiest
defence in the top flight and it was easy to see why as they were so
open in the second quarter of the game they appeared to be in disarray.

Everton should have had the game
wrapped up before the break; their confidence was highlighted by
Mirallas' attempted overhead kick before Marouane Fellaini hit the
crossbar with a header.

The Belgium international almost
clinched the result early in the second half with a long-range effort
tipped just wide by Gazzaniga before Osman and Mirallas also tried their
luck from the edge of the box as their toothless opponents offered
little in the way of resistance.